C# gdata API voilates atom-spec atom:link rule about google-gdata HOT 5 CLOSED

I do not really know how to fix that, in the sense that the current object 
model is
not intended to be an atom-verifier in the first place. Imagine you are 
temporarly
persiting the state of the feed to local storage (like an auto-save). In that 
state
you could easily have currently invalid atom, as you are not done editing.. 
Should I
throw then? I do not think so. 

To fix this, i would need to change the focus of the API to a more strict mode.
Feedback appreciated. 

Instead of:
<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" />

I would have expected the output to be:
<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href=""/>

Is that not easily possible?

i would have to special case the output of just that one href. Not hard. Just 
curious
on why that is important to you? the later case is as invalid as the one 
without (the
href value has to be a valid IRI per spec). 

I do not currently output this as i never output empty attributes/elements (to 
save
bandwidth, and because i think empty elements look stupid :)). I could easily 
change
it for this one though. 

OK - you've convinced me this isn't important. 
This issue can be closed as "by design"

Ok.